Note, this is an x32 machine, and among other things, the installation
process failed to detect and configure the battery and audio hardware.

Immediately after installation, I opened a shell and ran "sudo apt update"
it found a lot of things to update. After about 30 minutes of updating, the
machine crashed, into a non-bootable (except in "revovery mode" state)

In the crashed state, the screen was flashing infinite repetitions of the message
"Baytrail Audio Port: ASoC: no backend DAIs enabled for Baytrail Audio Port"

In recovery mode, I can't look around because "the root account is locked",
but on a previous iteration of this dance, it looked like installing a new kernel
was in progress.